AP Literature Review Flashcards

9700988747	Classicism	Universality, noble ideas, dignified language, restraint, clarity, objectivity, the importance of structure, an edifying purpose Examples include Homer (The Iliad, The Odyssey), The Bible, and Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus Rex)	0
9701017129	Realism	Truth and actuality, detail, character portrayal, psychology, objectivity, lack of sentimentality Examples include Chaucer, Chekov, Hemingway, and Ibsen	1
9701037364	Romanticism	Emotions and passions, imagination and wonder, Nature, individual, freedom and revolution, dreams and idealism, mystery and supernatural, experimentation with form, spontaneity Examples include (for prose:) Cervantes, Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Brontes, Hugo, (for poetry:) Shakespeare, Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lord Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning	2
9701079663	Impressionism	appeals to the senses, mood and effects, vagueness and ambiguity, momentary insights, impressions of setting, plot, and character, emphasis on color and light, emotions and feelings, sensations into words Examples include Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin	3
9701110297	Expressionism	Subjective responses, inner reality, abstract and mystical ideas, symbols and masks, man and society in chaos, creation of new worlds Examples include Joyce, O'Neill, T.S. Eliot, Kafka	4
9701134025	Naturalism	Realism to its extreme, fact and detail, social awareness and reform, man as animal in society, scientific inquiry Examples include Williams, Norris, Crane, Sinclair	5
9701149095	Existentialism	Man's alienation Example includes Camus	6
9701156350	Absurdism	Takes Existentialism one step further into the realm of fractured reality Example includes Albee	7
9701225987	Telegraphic Sentence	Shorter than 5 words in length	8
9701232049	Short Sentence	Approximately 5 words in length	9
9701237091	Medium Sentence	Approximately 18 words in length	10
9701261217	Long and Involved Sentences	Thirty words or more in length	11
9701281801	Loose Sentence	A sentence that makes complete sense if brought to a close before the actual ending	12
9701288842	Periodic Sentence	A sentence that makes sense only when the end of the sentence is reached	13
9701295903	Balanced Sentence	The phrases or clauses balance each other by virtue of their likeness or structure, meaning, and/or length	14
9701312561	Split Order of a Sentence	Divides the predicate into two parts with the subject coming in the middle	15
9701318591	Juxtaposition	Normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another creating an effect of surprise	16
9701336444	Alliteration	Beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound	17
9701343669	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words	18
9701348560	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect	19
9701355979	Simile	Comparison of 2 unlike things or ideas through the use of the words like or as	20
9701362433	Metaphor	Comparison of 2 unlike things or ideas without the use of like or as	21
9701369434	personification	A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics	22
9701382750	Onomatopoeia (Imitative Harmony)	The use of words in which the sounds seem to resemble the sounds they describe. When used on an extended scale in a poem, onomatopoeia is called imitative harmony.	23
9701397657	Hyperbole	deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration	24
9701407073	Understatement (Meiosis)	A kind of irony which deliberately represents something as much less than it actually is	25
9701420262	Paradox	A statement which contradicts itself; although it may seem to be at odds with ordinary experience, it usually turns out to have a coherent meaning, and reveals a truth which is normally hidden	26
9701438494	Oxymoron	A form of paradox which combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression; usually serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness	27
9701447948	Pun	A play on words which are identical or similar in sound but which have sharply diverse meanings	28
9701459741	Irony	The result of a statement saying one thing while meaning the opposite	29
9701465481	Sarcasm	A type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something while (s)he is actually insulting the thing; its purpose if to injure or hurt	30
9701476678	Antithesis	Involves a direct contrast of structurally parallel word groupings generally for the purpose of contrast	31
9701485668	Apostrophe	A form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present, and the inanimate as if animate	32
9701497487	Allusion	Reference to a mythological, literary, historical, or Biblical person, place, or thing	33
9701513322	Synecdoche	A part of something is used to signify the whole; the container representing the thing being contained; the material from which an object is made standing for the object itself	34
9701527180	Metonymy	The name of one thing is applied to another thing with which it is closely associated	35